Is there anyway (apart from editing the php) to make a link in a post open up in a new window when you click on it? I know you can right click on the link and select open in a new window but people don't think to do that. They are moaning at me that they close the window down and the forum has gone too, so they'd like links in new windows.

These changes will make all url's created using the [url] bbcode to open in a new window and any plain text links after the change open in a new window. Any plain text links made before the second change will not open in a new window.

I dont even have a those lines of codes in includes/functions.php and it is the original RC1 code that I have.

BigBlockMopar wrote:I *REALLY* hope this major SamePageLink-issue wil get fixed in the final release and let links open in new pages again.

i don't believe "fixed" is the right term here.
if there is any "bug" at all in this issue, it is the way links were handled in phpbb2, not the way they are handled in phpbb3.
when you have the target="_blank", users do not have a choice, and the link always opens in a new window.
when you omit it, users do have a choice: practically all existing browsers allow for opening of links in a new window or a new tab (for tab-supporting browses), by some key/click combination, when the user so choses.
IMO, letting the user decide is the "correct", or "more correct" thing to do.
it's true that this will take some getting used to, but ultimately, this is the direction the web is moving to, and that's why the standard no longer supports the target="_blank" attributre.
ultimately, your users will thank you for this change, which leaves the power in their hands.
eventually, the majority of sites will move (if they haven't already) to this more polite way of publishing links, and forcing a new window for links will be viewed more and more as rude. (i look at it like this now...)